Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1849 — Page 1

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fjThe Scripture saith the liberal soal shall be made fat." Our friend Cady must surely get fat, if there be any virtue io Cue melons, &c. &.c. We acknowltde the am afco. Crlt is said the Democrats have a majority of five in the Kentucky convention to amend the constitution. We do not know whether this be correct, not Laving seen a statement on the subject in any Kentucky paper. No list, no calculation, nor even a guess. Will the Louisville Democrat, Ky. Flag, Frankfurt Yeoman, or Henderson Banner, tell us how eland the figures ! o Don't all speak at once. Fire Insckance. We are glad to learn that our friend Vaa Iluuten's insurance on hi dwelling house lias been promptly paid him, by the Hartford Fire insurance Company, to whose advertisement, through their agents, Davis &. Ray, in this day's paper, we invite the attention of those who do not wish to wak up some of these nights and find themselves ruined by a fire. 0-Our friend, Mr. P. Howland, presented us a few days ago with d lot of peaches. We didu't keep them long enough to. measure them, and it is well enough perhaps that-we did not, for they were eo large our readers would think we were hoaxing them if the actual measurement and weight should have been given. They were perfect monsters, finely flavored, and no ways Lard to take, though we should think their equal would be Lard to find. We think he called them the Morri3 rare-ripe. O-The SrENCEK County Rewesentative. We learn from an authentic source that the seat of Air John W. Graham, the gentleman returned as elected Representative of Spencer county in the next General Assembly, will be contested by Mr. W. D. Richard son, the opposing candidate. We do not know the precise grounds of the contest, but we learn that Mr Richardson's right to the scat can be shown to be in controvertible. The vote was returned to the Secre tary of State's ofiice for Graham 553, for Richardson 530. Mr. Graham is a whig and Mr. Richardson a democrat. From the Journal. Mk. Editor: What I is it that makes bo many suggestions to the uext Legislature in the last "Sen tinel !" Can it be ontJ of the editors of that paper, eschewing the editorial tee, for the occasion, or is it Bome one else who has forgotten to put a sicnature to his communication! Q in the Corner. lhe signature in the communication alluded to, was accidentally left out by the printers. We liope thia information will relieve the solicitude of the Journal and its correspondent. Has it anything to offer against the suggestions made by our corrcspon dcntl Of-Patrick Collins, late surveyor of the port o Cincinnati, died at his residence in that city on the 23th insL He has been in bad health for some time .Lxceesive business anxiety, on account of matters growing out of his settlement with tho governmcn for large sums of money of which he was the depo itary by virtue of his office, together with the outcry raised by the whigs, charging him with being a de faulter, &c., probably hastened his death. We hope they now enjoy pleasant reflections, since the subject of their vile detraction baa fallen a victim to thci infamous persecution. O-We copy to-day the letter of Gen. Cass, which he reaffirms the doctrines of his Nicholson letter up on the subject of slavery in the territories. He re peats his opinion that slavery cannot exist in free ter ritories except under the sanctions of positive law that there is no danger that the people of the tcrrito ries will so sanction its existence that congress ought not to interfere with the questian one way or th other and in such an event, slavery is just as effectu ally excluded from California and New Mexico without as with the "Wilmot Proviso" restriction He goes even a little further than ho went in h Nicholson letter, by expressing a pretty decided opinion against the constitutionality of the Wilmot proviso or any similar restriction, instead of content.s mu. wuu lU expression oi aows as 10 us kt K :.t .. - : r j . . coMuiuuonaiiiy. ! "Gen. Tavlor became tho whiz candidate for the Presidency." Indiana Journal. .1, The above is a deliberate statement of our neigl O How does this accord with' Gen. Taylor's own statemcnts That he would not bathe President of a party that he would receive as soon the nomination of the ! Democratic as the whig party that he thanked the Katite Americans, so called, for nominating him ! And divers other expressions of a similar import ! And what becomes of the thousand times reiterated assertions of the whig press, all calculated to deceive ; the people into his support because he was not the candidate of any party 1 And wnat becomes of the Journal's own former deliberate assertion, thai "A ' re-rard for irÄiV vrinciofes forbids the nomination of . ....... V. ' r uen. layior r oornmcni is unnecessary. 11 may perhaps l arn why, even after it fell into the traces, ' that the little thumb concern of this city has forestalled it a3 a government "organ." I t, . T , ... ... ,. . r furts of whijrserv to carrv the State, and with ft to eain member of Cii2rea sufficient to make the House of Representatives in C.mgrcss whig the open bribe ollered to the leading men by I ruman Smith, and the triumph is one of the most glorious. with the exception of that of lennssee, we have chronicled during the reign of the present administration. Ohio Statesman. And if it were to do over again "about thi? period of time" we should improve upon it. The people ache to let old Taylor and bis lying minions know what they think cf the removal of Joe Lane. . C. B. Smith. The State Journal again comes to the defence of this gentleman, affirming that it is voluntary on its own part. The only important poiut last made by the Journal, is this: " That Mr. Smith, last winter, or at any other time, proved false to bi o(eu ions in irrfard to slavciy, 1 defy bit defimei lo establish by leliable testimony. Tba bill spoken ef by the 'Sentinel,' introduced by Dr. Palfrey, was intended as an unconditional aboli'hmeut of slavery in lhe Distiict tf Columbia, without rcgaid to the lights of lhoe person! in ine uninci wno noiu mat species ot property The question was, upon granting leave to introduce the bill, not as to its passage. And Smith was con veniently absent, as in other similar instances. Had the leave been given, the bill of course would have been subject to amendment. We fear the Journal skims over other particulars as hastily as it has e idcutly done in this case. But the subject is hardly worth pursuing, for Mr. SmitU is unequivocally shelved, by the fiat of his owu constituents, and they know how to keep hiro shelved, notwithstanding the apologiea and entreaties of the Journal. The Scalpel, a Journal of Health, adapted to pop ular and profesainnal jading, and the exporure of j qiackcry. New York: edited by Edward A. Dixoii,! 1- 1. I Contents of August number: Abuc of the lancet ; life sketches of eminent New York physicians; purgative medicines; villainy of the pill venders; remarkable instances of the effects of lhe imagination on the child before birth ; treatment of pulmonary diseases by inhalation; the aeose of taste; wine verus water: esthetics!, historical, religious, and physiological ; the cholera and its treatment ; abortionism, its anatomical and physiological consequences, &X. Published at 25 cents per number.

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Published every Thursday. Slavery ami Whigcry. The Louisville Journal is well known to be the most influential, as it id lhe most infamous, of all ie Whig Organs of the Mississippi Valley. In its daily cd

, . , ,.-. 1 1 I i I I 11 .1 I I. lilt lUll"lä Ul IIIUI M H.I. U'rurtlll" K'J tue tail mal itmn of August 21 and 22, its lead- . ard.ee and dishonesty which, though giving the wh.g . Gfn Ca9 wm tUeldJlt:tltei candifate cf .e De.m.cJevoted to the subject of slavery. It , Pany temporary success by the nomination of Tay-: racy cf t,e ation, for the Presidency, at the last con-

ng articles are d takes the bold ground, in these articles, that, the octrinc of slave emancipation is in every respect to tally impracticable and visionary, while at the same time, it admits, that it lias "held, and has endtavortd In maintain, thiit slavery is an ttil, political, moral and social I" On the 24th of the same month, following up this utject, the same paper devou-s a leading editorial, upon the course pursued by the Indiana State Sentinel in regard to the question of the extension of slacry. We are condemned, of course, for our supp:rt of freedom ; and because we cannot agree to the extension of "an evil, political, moral and social." We are also condemned because we do not subscribe to what the Journal affirms wa llo doctrine of the Nicholson Letter, to-wit : that the application of the Jeffcrsoniau anti-slavery ordinance to new territory. is unconstitutional, for this is what we understand the Journal to mean by the Wilmot proviso. As to the peculiar form of words constituting the Wilmot proviso, wo care nothing about them: tliey are mere "goat's wool ;" one Congress may enact, another may repeal them. Rut the principle involved in the question of the extension of slavery to free territory is a very dinerent thing, and something more than "goat s wool." It involves not only the mere matter of enslaving negroes, but the matter also of the representation of capital in the general government, and of the power of Congress to legis late upou the subject in any way. Still more: it involves what Southern men call the "balance of pdi tical power" belweeu the North and the South. Our course upon this subject during the past can vass, is fully justified by the following resolutions, passed by the Dcmecratic State Convention, held on the 8ih of January last, viz : "IlcsoUed, That the institution of slavery ought not to be introduced into any territory where it docs not exNt. "Resolved. That inasmuch as New Mexico and California are, in fact and in law, free territories, it is the dutv of Congress to nrevent the introduction of slavery within their limits." I TimiWtrmo nf ronTiitinni liml lmon nrovi. ouE1 nClcu uHu u..u C... .r-u uy ucu..awu i. i i r i i. i a l members of the Legbhturc, comprising a majority oi twenty-lour, the whole body numbering iov. i If our position be antagonistic to that of General Cas?, (a point we shall not nyv argue) it isiu ac cordance with that authoritatively assumed and de clared by the e'emocracy of this State. The Louis ville Journal admits thid, and further, it says, that "Locofoco orators and Locofoco editors in the free Slates are generally engaged" in laboring to enforce the sumo doctrine. The Louisville Journal will not deny either, that so far as ourselves and our party ere concerned iu this State, the adoption at an early day, and the ad herence to sound doctrine upon this question, was eminently successful as a mere measure of correct party policy, to say nothing of principle. It is to this, more than to any other one thing, that we owe the unprecedented victory which we have just achieved in this State, a victory unexcelled by that gained in any other, in which elections have recently been held. And wc have not only the glory of a great triumph to exult over, we have something belter! We have pea:e and harmony within our borders, which make us intincille. We stand in such an attitude of moral strength, that even thou sands of whigs, so far from expressing regret that wc have triumphed, admit and affirm, that we have thuj) ,riumnied bccausc we were r on this great question. Thin hove we gained a double victory ! The L'-HnmUe Journal snceringly charges tie de- ! mocracy of this State with having formed a coalition '. - ;.!. ti. Frop-S.,!, n.l iti,"l.,in. n.lnnl - 1 what it repeatedly calls the "moderate ground, pre viously eancti-'iied by thein, that the Wihnnt provieo was unconstitutional." These charges only prove the ignorance or the dishonesty of the Journal. The democracy f this State neither entered into nor proposed any "coilition" w hatever. They issued their own platform, and challenged public scrutiny, and public approval, upon that basis alone. They never occupied what tho Journal calls the "moderate ground" that a law against the extension of slavery was unconstitutional. Nor did any Democratic Aationnl Convention ever p.umciata such n dorrmn. Tl, . . r , . . last one expressly rcjusfd 10 ao so ; and it 11 had not, John Van Huren recent untrue declaration, would now bo true : "Um National democratic party would bo dissolved," and would be in the predicament of Ithe party in New York. ! The J0"1 wimJd UP' with a 8,rin2 of its cliarac' ! tcristic vituicration, upon the alleged inconsistency . of the democrats upon lhi3 subject, in the free States anj ei&vo states. Suppose that all it siya on this point be true T Are not the Whigs in a similar, or worse fix No intelligent man will pretend to deny it. A great many of the free State whigs profess to be not only Wilmot provisoists, but abolitionists also, formerly they were a little more open in their declarations, than since the election of Taylor, though they profess to believe that he would approve of the Wilmot proviso. But what is their attitude in the slave States 1 Look at them in Kentucky, for example, with the Louisville Journal at their head, opposing, with all their might, even the prospective emancipation recommended by Mr. Clay, and which would postpone the consummation fifty years ; and opposing the Wilmot proviso with equal violence. Truly the vituperation of the Journal is ill-applied when it is only visited upon the democracy. The prcat obicct of the Louisville Journal is. if it abje to inCfCase the difference of opinion and feeling, which it vituperates. It has po6?cssed the power to lessen it ; to persuade Southern men of both partics, to recede from ultra and untenable grounds, and to resume a course more liberal and conciliatory. Rut this, however beneficial it might be to the country, would not be profitable to the Journal as a whig partizan. Hence its present unpatriotic and dishonest course. Southern, as well as Northern, democrats, we hope will be sensible enough to see this. . The Louisville Journal known1, as well as we do, that a majority of the people of the free States never w,u R8rce 10 e,,end eIaTCry ,nto territory, ir it be a ,4point of honor" with the South to carry it there, it is not onlv a "noint of honor" but of "cun. sciencu" nith the' people of the North, not to permit it to go They never will voluntarily assent lo the extension, of what slaveholders themselves admit it to be, "an evil, political, moral and social." Talk of old "platforms" as you will, the power of party affiliation cannot be made strong enough to control men against their conscientious convictions in matters of principle. Nor is this question an "old" one, nor capable of being settled

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by indefinite test.. It is a. new question, and one which may not be dlgtd. The party that fears to rrapple with it, and to settle it upon tho basis of legal and moral right, is doomed. It is this very cowlr, will entail destruction upon it in the end. The IVuvy. ' To the Editor nf the Union : Permit me, as a friend to justice, to call the atten tion of Congress to its neglect of the navy, and its partial legislation in favor U the army at the close of the Mexican war a war in which both branches of from one city in the wake of tho conqueror, is sup posed to have exceeded the value of all the prizes caoturcd bv our fleets in the Mexican war : and vet. while the navy watched the ßhore, and joiued land expeditions carrying tlie war into the interior, fighting, bleeding and dying the pompon and bluejacket tocether the army has received promotion, brevets, extra pay, and land warrants, and the navy has had expressive silence and cruel neglect. Is this right I Is it honest I Is it worthy of our country or the aje in which we live I Twenty years ago I was a subordinate officer in the civil branch of our navy ; now, lam entirely separated from it. and nni supposed, because I will not palliate its abuses, to be its enemy, Friend or enemy, as it is right or wrong, I cannot, as an American citizen, look on with cold indifference, and see merit unrewarded and valor forgotten. How long is it since the navy became such on unpopular institution s Was it so in the wars with Alsiers and Morocco, with Tunis and Tripoll 1 Was it so when the La Vengeance went down in the midnight fight ; I when the Good Man Richard became the household word of the world; when the Corsair struck her bloody nag to the stars, and the Guerriere lay a pow- j crless wreck upon the sea ! ' Oh ri Nor would it be so now, if our nation had been enjrajred in battle . ... . .1 witli a first-rate foreign power. Eeatino alonir a I

our mil.tary service were engaged, and where all k'ress to legislate at all for the territories, on this sub- i argument against ne öuo-ireasury, n lails oi us were heroes and worthy of the laurel. Tho Mexican ject-proclaiming all auch legislation unconstitutional obJef entirely. We know of no way by which money war was not a war of prizes. Mexico had neither and unjust to the south. The precedents of legisla- "u be drawn from the Treasury and applied to public navy nor commerce; and, with a few miserable ex- tiou already had. at d.ffercnt times in the history of! objects, without being passed through somebody', ceptiens, the captures made by our nary were entirely our country, beginning at the Ordinance 0r 17S7, and ,md: Inrl,lW "pect, the Sub-Treasury system does ralnr.tPM. Ti.p tr.iir, nf WBffnn. il.-t hnr Im ilvpr comin? uu to the admission of Oregon, in 1317. are not ülr ,rorn t whicli preceded U. It may be

ehir-Iess shore : breasting the surf of inaccessible Senator from a free-soil State ! But not only is he ' .. .lt.l i r lt)

coasts; wrestling with northers; warpinr up pcstilontinl rivers; pent up in nnrr'uw quarters; and I obliged to take to another element to fHit the foe our pr sent navy performed more labor, endured more fatisrue. suffered more sickneoa. and sustained more losses of men in the war with Mexico, than the navy of 1300 or 1812. And has a commodore or a lieutenant been breveted or promoted ! Has a petty ollicer received a certificate of merit a midshipman a I 1 . - 4 IT .i.bT I eworu. ur a famau a ethuiu v ju money : iiuw uu- i , . .. lT.-l I T.sTr .1. . t, Dromolion9 were iikc . leaves in Vallamhrosa." Tliere. certificates of merit, like the patents of the Lejrion of Honor, were everywhere to be seen. ! There, land was given for each enlistment, in case of honorable discharge, by death i or otherwise, from the service; and there three months extra pav was al lowed from the outgoing general to the drummer boy on his last parade. W as it because the navy had but little political in fluence, and could not be of service to either party during the last election, that it was sent away with out a proper acknowledgment of its bravery and its J "I DromotitudeJ I hone not. 1 eel confident that it was not ; and yet it looks terribly like it. J. i.. D. I 07-Many of tho miserable Whig papers of this State, as devoid of decency as they arc insensible to j shame, true to their appropriate vocation of Lick- I spittles to Taylor, are publishing the grossest falsehoods and slanders against Gen. Lane, in the hope of justifying the meanness of the man, who, by the division of the democratic parly, was unfortunately elected to the Presidency. Whig papers out of this S:ate might be pardonable, m some degree, for such a course ; but we can conceive of nothing more disgraceful here. It only proves that lU whig editors of Indiana, as a class, arc below those of any State in the Union. Their slanderous lies against Lane, will probably nna some oenevers auroau, uiougn lew ui uome, none, where Lane is best known. We shall, in good .l I 1- t--l .1 L f... L ,ir"A notice these slanders in detail, and show their falsity. Our ot.ject now is merely to introduce the I - - . . . following notice of Gen. Lanes character, which was published some months ago, and tho author of which was not warped by partizan malevolence BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH LANE. If I were to select a fine specimen of a backwoods man (says Cist's Advertiser,) it should be Joseph Lane. I would take a foreigner," if in my power, GO miles to visit Lane, as an admirable illustration of the workings f our political and social institutions. 1 Know Homing 01 111a t:uriy niaiorjr, unu ureaiiiue it to be that of thousands in the west. I know him on,J" 113 f,rmcr ond woo1 ,nerchanti on ,he banka of lne u,11.'. w,"c racier i nni m.lue ,S aequo in tancc. He came on board the 0. U. Andrew Jack son, to receive pay for a lot of wood sold the boat, and was introduced to me by Capt. Eckert. He wore a blanket coat, and bis general appearance was that of a backwoodsman, but I had not conversed with him five minutes, before I set him down as a man of no ordinary cast Later and more intimate acquaintance confirmed my judgment, and in his late military career in Mex- - - Z. - iCO, he has shone Conspicuous for gallantry and good conduct, even in the galaxy cf heroes which the war

with Mexico has brought to public notice. It may vii.:winu. ine oeep cnagrin ien Dy me cauinei upnot bo amiss to state, how he obtained his military on tliu being let down by the true-hearted democracy appointment, taken, as he was, from the farm, to of Indiana, could only work itself off in exhibitions

ivad armies to Victory. When it became the duty of the President to make the appointment of Brigadier General, it was felt by every western member of Congress to be a prize for his constituents. I'robably some fifty names had been handed in to the President accordingly. Robert Dale Owen, in whoso district Lane resides, entertaining no such local pride, would probably not have furnished any name, but for a suggestion to that eitect, Irom nnn .-.c iL- T.wi Rorv.tra "Wim hi An int..ni recommending 1" "Why," said Mr. Owen. "I had not thought of offering a name. Thcro are no appli cations to me from my own district, but if yon think it due to it, to offer a name, I shall hand in that of Joe Lane. The Senator approved of the choice, and it was ac cordinrly suggested. Tne President, as usual, said he would give it is favorable consideration. A few days afterwards, Mr. Owen wa? transacting some private business at the While House. After it was through "Ey the bye, Mr. Owen," observed the Trc sident, "I hall have to appoint your friend Lane lo the Brigadier Generalship. I hope you have well Pnn;)rr.l vmir TvmmmP.nAnWnn . for tS nffiVo U very responsible one." "I know nothing," replied Mr. Owen, 'or Lane's military talents, but there are about him those elements of character, which in all times, of difficulty prompts every one to rally, instinctively, around him as a leader. This has been the case in early days, when lawless men infested the river border. Whether on shore or among boatmen on the river.liane was a man relied on to keep such men in order, and ho was always found equal to everv emergency. I would select him for the ofiice before any other man I know, if I had the appointment to make." Lane was appointed. The Bcquel is history and justified the penetrative judgment of Mr. Owen. Lane has developed qualities which place him in the front rank of military service. When the news of the battle -of JJuena Vista readied Washington, Mr. Owen called on President Polk. Well, sir, exclaimed he, what do you think of our HooVier General 1 Ah! said the President, with a quiet smile, Mr. Owen, ym are safe out of that scrape !

An Important Is. Ucr from Gen. Cass, j In the Washington Union of the 7tii instant, will i be found a most interesting und important letter from i , auurcsseu lo 1 HM ? tchie, in one oi test, and that ho lias recently been elected to the United States Senate, from Michigan, one of tho free j Slate. growing out of the North-west Territory.lhis let. j ter is really the most surprising political document ex- i tont. It issurpri-ing, bec.iusc it is a letter from a United States Senator, repescnlhig a free-soil. Democratic : Stale, und advocating most ultra southern principles 1 on me suui-ci oi slavery u ueuics trie rir:ii oi i,ondeclared to be precedents that hsv gone on, silenUnd unquestioned to the present day. we cannot mis take the meaning ot Uen. Uass. lie sys, in one sentence: "Jt iongres have not the power, as I be lieve they have not, in common, with a large portion ot tue people, it becomes worse than useless, by be coming unconstitutional." Now the so-called Nicli olson letter went a great way for the south but not so iar as tins as it only advocated non-intcrlerence. on account or justice ana policy, without touching up. on the constitutionality of the matter. Tho present avowal places Gen. Cass at no half-way house, but throw s hu. ai once among the ultra southern poim cians, save a id except that he will not go for disunion Seeing the m things, and looking to the manner in which be wsu treated by the south, at the last rresi dential contest, we are bound to 6ay that we are lost in wonder, between his excess of zeal in their beltalf, and tneir callous ingratitude, that set it an at nought, by rejecting and spurning him indignantly, as a can didato for the presidency. Surely, if ever the south found a northern man with southern principles, it was in tins instance, and yet they spurned lumasan enemy. Our wonder on this head is onlv exceeded by anoth cr wonuer, wnicn is, now ne, auove an omers, enierl i t t it. i tained, such qy-ntiment, happened to be elected U. S elected oy a irec-soM ötatc, and by iree-soii democrat ic votes, but he is positively instructed to support their principles in the U. S. Senate when he shall take his seat ! W ill he, under the circumstances, do it! We do not eee how it i.s posib!c, after his declaration in this letter to his fnend Kitchie. When we thus sec a Senator from a free-soil State, like Cass, supporting ultra southern doctrines about slavery, in defiance ot Miw constituent, and at tue same time, in our own Vlnta noirrli K r r rr oi ix itK I a ft inctitntiAna ae -t ma "f iuamuiiuuo wtabtialipil. find a Senator blamed bv some ofhisconstituents for leaning towards free soilism, we hardly know how to reconcile such inconpisiencies. When Lass, Irom free Michigan, goes lor slavery, and I.en ton, from the elave State ot Missouri, goes for tree soil in territories, ue hnd no known rule in pontics whereby to reconcile such singular differences between these states and their Senators. !st. Louis Union. O-Old Zack u iÜ "swar" a little yet, when much provoked ! lie has declared war upon the whole newspaper tribe : he was recently beard to express aa ..a..a e fiegaui unu cuv.iciu trumwi , m c uiu care a dn for a1L the newspapers in the United Slates!" ft he State Journal included we suppose of course.) Old Uncle Toby doubtlees thinks his oppoeition will kill about three quarters of tho newspa per$ in the country. He will have about the same success which one might be expected to have who should attempt to dam up the Mississippi with hand-barrow ! The old fellow's 2d Assistant Post master General bos been instructed to construe the Jaw E0 that postmasters shall not be allowed to frank letters containing money to pay subscriptions to newspapers. Hear Fitz Henry, the Hog Drover : Post Office Department. ) Afpoihtsient Office, Aug. 12, 1849. j Sir : The Postmaster General has received a let ter from the Postmaster at Glasgow, Howard county Mo., saying that he had noticed a publication in the I ninarillrt Triiirtml " tl.nt nnatmn ctpra ivpro nnlhnr wM.....w wa...., ...w.. "'i"v. v.j2ed t) fraiik ,etter8 ,(, publishert of newspapers and other periodicals, enclosing money to pay subscriptions, &e. If such is the fact that such publication has been made, you will please have it corrected as 1 wi -n v, publicly as it has been made as postmasters have no such authonlt. Very reFpectfully, &.c. Signed FITZ HENRY WARREN, Second Assistant P. M. Gen. To Thomas J. Rend, P. Louisville, Ky. Here the coiistruction'of a law of long standing is reversed by a 6ingle dash of Fiti's pen, with ns little ceremony as though the authority in question had not bccn ly ccrnrRCn coisnnl contcdrd to postmasters since the pnesege of the present pest-cfiice law! Go it, Uncle Toby! Go it, Fitz ! What busi ness l.ave the newspapers to criticise the "second Washington." Give 'cm ginger, Zachary ! Public Sentiment-(Jen. Lane. Gen. Lane, gallant old Jo the noble hearted leader whom his brave men delighted to call the j "Marion of the war" has been removed by the pre- 1 8ent "Heroic administration " (!) from the governnr6,1P ot Oregon. I his was done alter the reception I -e - -i: .1.-. T : i : i I i OI inieiiigence "i luexican nigery au ih-cii e "om old Jo s state, ns chatt is scattered by the I 01 y-11) T1" agaiui a uisuuguisueu iiiuianauauycrai- "ce ine removal 01 ucn. urnv, aim 11 hub not the cause ot his removal, what was j iJoes nc lack the "essential prerequisites ro wnig uare "J ,,e 1,04 cover '"m(e" Wil" K"ry a mantle, by his intrepid bearing during ins whole connexion with our armies in Mexico, and is proper onu just lor ucn. layior who gamea tue capua huich mau mm 1 uu iiwHiw iuva trc to thus uroscritw tor opinion's sake, a brother in .Is llie magnanimity of a soldier ! or is it rather the act of a vindictive and mean-spirited man, who cannot understand the nature of that "nice sense of honor" which eo peculiarly distinguished the profession of arms! We look upon the removal of Gen. Lane by Gen. Taylor as a violation of honor, and whether t!o responsibility of the act -rests with the execulivo directly or his advisers, he is equally disgraced by it. If it has been done by Taylor himself, then is there no excuse for him. If by tho cabi net, then is the position of tho President even more diegracetul in the eyes 01 all oonesi men, lor ne nas nt the manliness to assume a power for the exercise of which tllO COUOlry hold him responsible. We greatly mistake the spirit of tho people of Indiana if le7 ou n01 uuwo ww tii wvauj done, give Tayloristn to understand that it can 1, from "ia t,ma forward, hope fr no guarantees within their borders. awtVow, Ü., Ttlegraph. Many of our contemporaries express surprise lhat Gen. Taylor ehould allow a ronn, who rendered such important aid to jiitn when in Mexico, to be removed notwithstanding lie was unfortun-te enough to be a Democrat. For our part, we are not surprised at any thing this administration has done, nor can we be at anything it may do. The greater the service a man has rendered his country tho more odious is he in tho eves of the ci-rht powers which now coutrol the des tiniesof this nation. What right, then, had Gon. Lane, or his friends, to expect that he would be re tained as Governor of Orecon ! Had betaken the I aide against, bis country, as it is said bis successor j did, then there might have btcn some hope for him ; but he fought nn the wrong side to please the 'Second I Washington'" cabinet, and consequently ho has been ' made to feel their wrath. "Thero is a good timo coming." JW. Vernon, O , Banner.

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The Sub-Treasury. The Washington Republic has on article or two every day, about the apprehended loss of $155,000 of government money, by Mr. Denby, U. S. Agent ot Marseilles, in consequence of the failure of Mr. Osborne, of Richmond, Va. We are quite willing that e cry euch defalcation or ls should be exposed in all its dtforinity, and the blame made to rest where it belongs. Blame there must le, perhaps in more place than one. Let the lash be applied, and the law be enforced against the sureties of the delinquent. And if fraud or villany can be proved against any of the parties, let them snlP-T as they deserve. S far, wc respond to the sentiments of the Republic. JJ;it when it seeks, on bo narrow a basis, to build better guarded, or it may not. One or two losses have occurred pince it went into operation, through the unfaithfulness or misapplied confidence ot agents, and many occurred before from the same cause. Here then is no ground of boasting on either 6ide. Under any system, receiving and disbursing officers must be employed, and under any system some of them may prove dishonest or incompetent. Under any system the sureties may be found insufficient, &c. cut this is no good reason why the public money should not bo guarded from loss in other ways The great sources of loss, under the old system, were the depreciation of bank notes and the failure of bank?. These are entirely obviated under the Sub-Treasury system. lhe extent -of the public loss from these sources, will be 6ccn by the following statement, derived from a report of Judge Woodbury, then Secretary of the Treasury, to the U. S. Senate, in complincc with a resolution of that body, on the Ilia of February, 1S41 : Loss estimated by the Treasury Depart ment on the depreciation of 13ank notes received prior to 1337, - $5,500,000 Loss appearing on the books of the Treaurv by Danks as depositories, prior to 1837, 900,000 Loss estimated by using Danks as dejrositories since 1637, - 100,000 Los3 estimated on Bank notes taken, and not redeemed prior to 1837, - - 80,000 Loss estimated 011 Bank notes taken, and not redeemed since 1S37, - - 40,000 Aggregate, -Computed interest on do. to 1511, $3,G20,0U0 0,872,000 Total loss to the people by the use of Hanks and Bank notes for government purpose", - - - - $tl0,4y.,UUn Now wc submit that in order to make good its argument from experience, against the Sub-Treasury system, the Republic should exhibit losses under it, bearing some sort of proportion to the above, taking into view the length of time during which that system lias been in operation, and the amount of money collected and disbursed. At least, it should 6how a loss of one dollar, or one cent, by any of tluse features of the Sub-Treasury eystem which distinguish it from other systems. If the Republic cannot do this, it may as well hang up its fiddle. N. Y. Jour, of Com. The Van Pukexs Father and Son. Noah tella the following funny stories of the sage of Kinderhook and his hopeful son Trince John The world is angry with Mr. Van Buren for having led his son into this political morass, but we rather think that the son has led the father into the quagmire. When John established the Albany Atlas to put down the Argus the thing of all others which has made the present muss in the party the old gentleman went up to Albany from Kindcrhook to remonstrate with John, and to preach caution, mildness, and forbearance. He saw what would grow out of it, and admonished the son to be careful and not get into a fight with the Argus. Young Ilo'spur heard him out with his usual amiability, and said in reply "My dear sir, I have the greatest respect for your opinion, your experience, and your judgment ; bui-Jiballlia d 1 you know of politics 1" There is no doubt the old gentleman bad great confidence in John's talent, but not in his discretion, aiid they have no secrets from each other. The Van Euren family are all dreadful sleepers ; they sit up half the night, and lay in bed until noon. A droll scene occurred once at Washington when Mr. Van Buren was Vice President. Ha laid in bed so late that he could not reach the Senate at twelve o'clock, to call that honorable body to order. Lamenting his sleepy propensity to John, he declared that there must be a reform they all slept too late. "Let's make a bargain," said John. "The Cret who rises hall call the other up, with leave to pull the delinquent out of bed if not up in time." Agreed !" 6aid the old gentleman. One night John sat up playing brag with a parcel of roysterers until the morning's sun darted its rays through the preen blinds. "Bless ine!" said he, "why it's 8 o'clock. I must go am' call the old gentleman up." John went to his own room, made his toilet, and then went into his father's bed-room. "Hallo! do you know how late it is, father!" Pat 8 o'clock. Come, tumble up !" "Oli, John ! let me sleep a little longer." "Not a minute. You remember the bargain." So he rolled the old gentleman into his blanket and sheet, deposited him very gently on the floor and left him. " One thing is certain between the old and young magicians, they distrust each other's quickness, aptness and discrimination. Some time ago there was a caucus at Flagg's, at Albany, to talk over political matters. Col. Young, John Van Buren, the ex-President, with other leading men, were piesent. Mr. Van Euren, as usual, was preaching caution, conciliation and moderation to all John's propositions. 'ThereJ" said John to one of the party,"I told you he was an old Hunker. He ain't sound !" Fbaud os Ekttish Railroads. The corruption -practised in the management of British railroad corporations is found to have been so enormous that the people of all classes arc shocked and astonished. Hudson is, perhaps, the most magnificent of the persons so far exposed, but he appears to have had a great number of emulators, among whom it must have been exceedingly difficult to maintain his supremacy. We notice the winding up of one concern, which had been projected under the auspices of thia worthy gentleman, but he did net participate in its organization, because one of the principal confederates demurred to Mr. Hudson's conditions, which were that he should have 40,000 shares of the stock set apart for him, and that he should have the appointment of the directors, and his own secretary. This project seems to have been altogether a model affair of its kind. It was set on foot by a bankrupt attorney in 1345, with a nominal capital of $15,000,000 in 120,000 Ehares. Stock enough was allotted to raiae $160,000, which was entirely spent without any results. At a recent investigation into tha affairs of the York and Newcastle road, of which Mr. Hudson was chairman, it appears that be corruptly applied $900, 000 of -the funds of the company, which had not yet been recovered from him, and that be had been made to disgorge $350,000 of his appropriations. Directors testified that they knew there was gross if nut fraudulent mismanagement coins on, but they knew it would be useless to attempt to stem the torrent of Mr. Hudson's popularity. And they were the less disposed to disturb Ue rebus at his meals, because they occasionally received sops themselves. Eulwer, the novelist, is now satisfied that Eugene Aram was innocent of the charge of murder, and makes tho amende honorable in the edition of hi popular novel of that name, now publishing with his other works. Although Aram was an accomplice 111 the robbery of Clarke, Buhver is convinced, with many eminent lawyers, alter going ever all the evl dence. that he is otherwise innocent, and says: '. have accordingly eo shaped his confession lo Walter.' I

L.itest from the Placers Another Leiter from one of iSic ll'Iioys. We published t!;e first letter'of the f.-llowir.g corrcspondei.t of the New York Times. It is proper wo should give his second epistle of course."

Rank or Santvclav?,! Uffer California, May 17, 1S19. Eddyturs of th; Sunday Times: I b'.eve I told you in my last letter 'bout Gincral Persevere Smith's proclamasht.ns agin furrcnirs. There's bio a diffikulty between him an' major part of the minors, sense then. He wanteJ to rivet a tacks on the furrcn miuors, and lhy wooaent submit to the imposition. O, tliere was an orful time ! He told 'cm be was the Konkeror of Contraries, and woodent submit to no contradiction. He aUa shoue 'cm the authority of the government, an' ast 'cm if they'd dit-pule that! They said no, they woodent dispute nulhin ; but they d dig as much gold as they d a mmd too, and if ie intcrlercd uitlMhcir siftiu, his own saud ud soon be run. The rush to the diggins continues, and the provis ionals getting skarse, so much eo that fat men bogi"3 to be regarded with avarishs e)es. Infants, if plump, woouent be sale, an some of tne fellers look at the two or three j-oung wimmen wc l.ave in the settle ment jest as if they wanted to rat 'cm. Appetite's no rtepecter of persons, as a young man from tt. Joseph's who elt his grandmother on t lie plains, remarked to me the other day. "The old 'oomn,"says ho. 'was dry, very dry, but there's no earse like hunger, and without intendin to make game of old age, I must say, she tasted like venson." The injuns has been troublesome lately. Thelickcr havin given out, the darned red skins refused to dig, and we had to lam 'em ', whereupon they got sausy and fit with us. In coarse we used 'em up, and now the cussed ungrateful devils wont come near us. Ainl it too bad, 6eeiu how weve done for 'em. But it's eo all the world over. I've a eood mind never to make an aboridginee drunk again, or act the part of a chrystin by any o' the vile mule stealing, lasso throw ing, skull tkinnin, copper heads again while I live. V e have noose by the Cahforny steamer that a mense quantity of grub and spirits is cummin out from the States. If we get it in time we mean to have a glorious blow out on the Fourth of July. Altho we have found a temporary hum in Californy, wc feel cheap when we reflect upon the dear ones we left behind. Sometimes a man of family dreams that ho is agin with his wife and children, but in the morning the delushun vanishes, and lie finds himseif still in a Pacific State. Others who left the partners of their buszums, fancyin they had cause for jealosey, would willingly dubble the Horn to clasp them in their arms wuncc more. As I menshund in my last letter I have akwired sijffishent welth, an long for the sweets of connubial bliss. Love is stronger than Cupidity. At present, my effeckshuns embrace wimmen generally, when I get hum they will soon come to a focus. Please bear my wife in mind I mean the one you are to select for me. I will write and let you knowwhen 1 expect to be at Panyma, and would like her to jiue me there, and be united at wunst without waiting till we get to the United States. Yours, A DISI3ANDED VOLUNTEER. The Public Lands. The civilized world is now filled with reformers, and their associations, and their writings and speeches "; and their grand theme is the poverty of the many. the superfluous wealth of the few, and the tendency f most modern institutions to promote this difference between them, and the amount and increase of crime and misery produced by tliis difference. Most of their ssertions about tne existence of crime and nnry. about poverty as their cause, and existing institutions as promoting the cause, are truv. But we dj not subscribe to the morality or practicability of many of their remedial propositions. And while all this is staring every American legislator in the face, and while he continually urges that our own institutions are better than any others for perverting" or mitigating these evils, we find American legislators ding ibeir almost to promote them, in the very thing,, the public ancs, in which they might operate ino.vt elLcaciousIy for their prevention. We find them doing their utmost to throw the public land' into tiio hands of wealthy capitalists of the cities, or of trading, selfseeking politicians, and to keep them out of the hands of the poor. They sell milli ns of acres to rich capi talists, banks and public officers, at "government prices," well knowing that every acre thus sold wnl be doubled in price to the poor cultivator, and is bought by the speculator for no other purpose. ISever lud a government a more powerful engine for protecting the poor and restraining the rich, than ours has in the public lands. And never was a government more faithless to its trust with anything, than ours has been with this instrument. Every man, in voting for his rulers, Presiding, Vice Presidents and members of Congre, and Sialc Legislators who elect members of Congress, should look, with a stcsdy eye, to the sale of the public land to actual settlers only, and in quantities not exceeding a square mile, or section which contains fix hlindrt d and forty acres, to each purchaser. Within tl.rpo limits, wc wish lhat every man in our country with out a farm, or a trade or business as profitable ns a farm would be, would "vole himself a farm" of the public lnnd3 which are not yet sold. The millions f acres ot these lands, divided into farms of six hun dred and forty, or three hundred and twenty, or even one hundred and 6ixty acres, would affoid an excellent home to the tens of thousands who now crowd our cities and large towns in poverty. P.a. Ledger. Front th Ohio Statesman. Printers and llie Cholera. The Board of Health of Cleveland, in giring an account of the cases of cholera in that city on the 2d insl., note the following: "A bv was received into the Hospital last evening from Tiose Alley in the stage of collapse still living." In remarking on this case, the Cleveland Herald, under the head, "Humane and Heroic ;" says : The boy mentioned in the report cf the Board of Health was found by some young printers last even ing, lying 0:1 the ground, nothing on but shirt and pantaloor.s, and in great distress. They kindly in quired into his condition, learned that he had been 6vimmmg in the lake, could get no further, and had laid down to die. A hand cart was obtained by the boys, into which they lifted the sufferer, and conveyed him as carefully as possible to llie Hospital. "Many men would have fled from the stricken orphan but these lads with true courage and humanity nobly 'did as they would be done by.' " Judging the printers of Cleveland by those cf Columbus, though the conduct recorded above was highly praiseworthy, it is nothing' more tban we would have expected. When first the cbolcra broke out in this city, sev eral persons were aacked, and so great waa the alarm that many, could not procure help. Victor Trevitt, Ben. Lincoln and Joseph Dillon, printers, then employed in this oflice, dropped everything and went to their assistance, and their conduct was followed by others, and our office waa nearly depopulated by the journeymen being engaged, without f'o it reward, save in the consciousness of performing their duty, in nursing the eick. The 1 wo former had seen death amid the flash of musketry and the charges of Urrea's cat airy on the field of San Jacinto, and they f an d it not in the bouse of aOictiou, when life was to Ikj saved. Day after day, and night after nignt, wire these men engaged in ministering to the wants of the 6ick and the distressed, and by their kind and prompt attention, several lives, we have good reason for believing, were saved. In the performance of their duty, which they deemed thry owed to their ftllow-meu, no danger could appal them. During the time the cholera was most fatal, tba printers of the Statesman ofiice were at the call of all who needed their services. Besides Lincoln, Dillon and Trevitt, Messrs. Morgan, Blake and others rendered important services. Our indefatigable carrier, too, (Mr. McCamish,) though not a printer, yet for bis devotion should have been one, was ever ready to assist, and performed more tban doctor's service. He fortunately bad .Ce experience of 1S33, when the cholera raged Erst hi Columbus, and then made himself a name for his attention to the sick and the destitute, and that fame suffered not by bia conduct during the present summer. During the past month, both Morgan and Trevitt, were attacked with the disease, incurred in over exertion in attendance on the sick, but both happily recovered the others escaped the disease. Men who will thus act the christian part should be remembered and appreciated.